If you’re riding with Jack White, know that you’d best buckle up. He’s going to take more sharp turns over the course of one outing than most artists dare in a career.
Same with the decidedly down-home “Parallel,” an exclusive b-side cover now available on seven-inch vinyl and Mp3 editions of “Would You Fight For Me Love?” from White’s new all-over-the-map solo release Lazaretto. An album that saw Jack White blithely swerve from stomping blues to flinty dance music to insouciant rock could only be augmented by a shit-kicking country addendum, right?
And that’s exactly what you get as he tears into “Parellel,” originally released as part of the Hello=Fire debut album by Dean Fertita, a touring band member of White’s — and a member of the Raconteurs, too.
Well, for a while, anyway. With but a minute or two left, Jack White floors it again, hurtling headlong into this huge prog-rockish finale, complete with mind-expanding keyboards and wow-man ending. That sound you hear was our airbag deploying.
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